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Zoos That Have Closed

 

Zoo

Date Closed

Details

Oceanarium Wales    
Cowal Bird Garden

2007 ??

 
Southport Zoo

2004

 
Glasgow Zoo

2003

 
Churnet Valley Wildlife Park

2002

Churnet Valley Collection was closed and transferred to the former Wildlife Park Kirkcudbright and re-launched as Galloway Wildlife Conservation Park.
Gatwick Zoo 2/09/2002 Russ Hill, Charlwood, Surrey RH6 0EG. UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: 44-01-293-862312 Fax: 44-01-293-862550

Gatwick Zoo which opened in 1973 closed on the 2/9/2002, the site was sold for housing.

Basildon Zoo

March 2002

Basildon Zoo
Vange, Basildon SS16 4QA. Essex Telephone: 01268-553985

Attendance

Staff

Area

Associations

30000

7

2

 
 

Species

Specimens

Mammals

32

145

Birds

51

270

Reptiles

3

7

Totals

86

422

The Butterfly Centre Eastbourne

2001???

Building has now been demolished.
The Wildfowl Trust (Peakirk)

2001

Peakirk, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Flamingo Gardens and Zoological Park

2001

Flamingo Gardens and Zoological Park
The Manor House, High Street, Weston Underwood, Olney, Buckinghamshire, MK46 5JR
01234 711451

Attendance

Staff

Area

Associations

 

3

6

 
 

Species

Specimens

Mammals

5

50

Birds

175

800

Totals

180

850

Bridgemere Wildlife Park, Nantwich, Cheshire    
The Tropical Bird Gardens, Rode.

2001

Has Closed this Year.
Riber Castle Wildlife Park

31.10.2000

 
Carrick Green Wildlife Park

Approx 1998

3 Taylors Road, Stotfold,Hitchin, Hertfordshire SG5 4AZ.UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: 44-01-462-834-788 Fax:
Windsor Safari Park 1992 This safari park is now legoland. A site dedicated to the old Safari park can be found at http://www.windsorsafaripark.org.uk
Blean Bird Park, Kent. 1990? Opened 1980 closed in the nineties? after repeated theft of birds.
Honey Hill, Blean, Canterbury, Kent CT2 9JP
Telephone: 44-01-227-471666
Stagsden Bird Gardens, Bedfordshire 1989? Closed late eighties or early nineties?
Midland Bird Garden, Bridgnorth, Shropshire. 1984 opened in june 1979 closed 1984.
Loch Lomond Bear Park 1980? Closed late 70's-early 80's
Whitson zoo, Nr Newport, Gwent 1970? closed I think in the early seventies.
Kilverstone Wildlife Park    
Morecambe & Heysham Winged World 1979? Opened in 1966. This was an important bird collection that closed in the late 1970's.
Southampton Zoo   Was part of the Chipperfield empire and used as a holding unit for animals being transferred between Safari Parks.
Penscynor Wildlife Park, Neath, Wales  
Penscynor Wildlife Park Cilfrew, Neath, Glam., SA10 8LF, S Wales
Telephone: 01639-642189 Fax: 01639-635152

Attendance

Staff

Area

Associations

216000

18

6

ISIS, FZG

 

Species

Specimens

Mammals

28

199

Birds

87

317

Reptiles

8

41

Amphibians

3

11

Fish

40

3000

Invertebrates

8

50

Totals

174

3618

Kelling Aviaries , Kelling, Norfolk    
New Forest Butterfly Farm   Longdown, Ashurst, Southampton, SO4 4UH
Telephone: 44-01-42129-2166 Fax:
Marineland, Morecambe, Lancashire    
Haigh Minature Zoo, Aspull,Lancashire   Haigh Mini Zoo - Haigh Country Park, Wigan WN2 1PE
Telephone: 44-01-942-832-895 Fax:
Poole Park Zoo, Poole, Dorset    
Padstow Tropical Bird Gardens, Padstow, Cornwall    
Aberdeen Zoo    
Animal Training School & dolphinarium, South Elmsdale    
Belle Vue Zoo Park   Closed in 1977 after 140 years as a zoo operating within an amusement park.
Bideford Zoo    
Bird Land ,Cromer    
Black Mountain Bird Garden, Llanddeusant    
Cleethorpes Adventure Land & Zoo    
Cliftonville: Queens Hotel Dolphinarium    
Clopton Bird Gardens & Fish Centre , nr Thrapston    
Cornish seal Sanctury, St Agnes    
Dreamland Safari Zoo, Margate    
Hele Rare Breeds Farm    
High Peak Garden Centre    
Isle Of Wight , Dolphinarium    
Marine & Freshwater Aquarium    
Nuneaton Zoological Gardens    
Pans Gardens, Ashover    
Pinevalley, Devon Wildlife Park nr Oakhampton    
Plymouth Zoological Gardens    
Porthcawl Dolphinarium    
Rhyl Dolphinarium    
St Asaph Zoo, North Wales    
Sherwood Zoo park, Hucknall    
Skegness Dolphinarium    
Southend Dolphinarium    
Stanley Zoo, Harperley hall, Tantobie, Newcastle on Tyne    
Stansted Wildlife Park, Essex    
Stapleford Lion & Game reserve    
Tropical Bird Garden, Bishops Tatchbrook    
Tropicana Aquarium & Mini Zoo, Rhyl    
Verulamium British Wildlife , St Albans    
Wellingborough Zoo gardens    
Wold Pottery Bird Garden    

 

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